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Viable funding, and more
A major reshaping of how we pay for our highways — and how we use them — may…
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Reserved rental car a myth
We’re having an end-of-the-year sale; all 2011 headlines must go:
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A child shall lead them
In the beloved Christmas TV special, when a despairing Charlie Brown wonders, “Isn’t there anyone who knows what…
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Critical action left undone
Thanks to a pathological preoccupation with partisanship, Congress faces a very long to-do list when it returns to…
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Stalemate a losing strategy
Congress, which had been running neck-and-neck with Greece for Worst Performance in Government in 2011, will be hard…
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Offer a ray of light to others
It’s not for nothing that people are drawn to cheery Christmas lights. And burning candles. And roaring fires.…
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Success? Only time will tell
Nearly nine years after U.S.-led forces began the invasion of Iraq, the last American troops left the country…
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You’re no nitwit, just misfit
As Yukon Cornelius says to Rudolph, after the red-nosed reindeer is denied his request to live on the…
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Require a funding source
When voters say yes or no to a ballot initiative, they’re acting as state lawmakers — exercising the…
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‘Hey, I’m not the problem’
How distracted are Americans? We’re so distracted that every time a federal agency says driving under the influence…
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A better way to make paper
It’s particularly frustrating that the sale of the Kimberly-Clark paper plant apparently fell through over environmental clean-up concerns,…
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User-fee existence isn’t easy
As the slicing and dicing of the state budget continues, few agencies face a murkier future than the…
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Slurred Tweets a giveaway
Oh, come on, generation whatever. Do they really need to be told not to Tweet while intoxicated, while…
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Wait OK, if reforms result
State lawmakers won’t achieve the Gov. Chris Gregoire’s goal of filling a $1.4 billion budget shortfall — and…
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Workers’ skills in demand
Workers at Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s pulp and paper mills may be down today, but they’re not out. Not by…
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Ready to help, every day
This morning, roughly 1,000 people will gather in the Orca Ballroom at the Tulalip Resort Casino for the…
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Give it a chance to survive
What neither snow, rain, heat nor gloom of night could slow, digital technology has.
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Dog loses hunting license
“Santa Claus is Coming to Town”: A fun, traditional carol, or portrait of a bullying stalker? (“Better not…
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Farewell, and fair winds
Years from now, when locals look back nostalgically on the early days of Naval Station Everett, the first…